Express yourself on the go. That was the idea of a team of engineers when they started working on Quillpad that offers a way around for people struggling with regional languages in digital documents. Typing in regional languages, be it an email, a blog or a message , may not work on all platforms , especially mobile phones, as many of them do not support Indian language font rendering.

"Almost 80 per cent users type in regional languages, and later copy and paste it on to other platforms like email or blog or any other website. Keeping such users in mind, we recently launched Quillpad Roaming . With this, you can write on any platform directly," says Ram Prakash H, CEO of Tachyon Technologies, which has brought out this innovative app.

Users will have to log on to roaming.quillpad.in, and key in the site for which transliteration is required. Users will then be prompted to register. Once transliteration has been enabled , users will be able to, for example, update their statuses on Facebook or tweet in their preferred local language.

As Gyan Pande, a user, puts it: "I am delighted to use Quillpad . It is brilliant. It is vital that we communicate in our mother tongue and keep it alive and flourishing all over the world."

Quillpad happened in 2006. The team, led by Ram, has Shivram K as head, engineering and CTO and programmers Ravi Tej, Sharath Puranik and Rohit Bhoopalam. They work on an algorithm which is purely statistical . This enables them to replicate it in any Indian language . "Quillpad understands the language and translates it. It's a mathematical code, not linguistic," explains Ram, who co-founded Tachyon Technologies after he passed out of IITMadras in 2000.

Clients, who have licensed Quillpad include Rediff, Yahoo, Indiatimes and Aadhaar. During Aadhaar enrollment, the details that are entered in English are simultaneously stored in a regional language and in Hindi.

The company is all set to launch Quillpad Touch, which is now available on iOS. To be launched across all Android devices within a month, it has gesture-recognition feature as well. It will be available in Hindi and Marathi. "We are trying to launch it in all Indian languages . Conjunctions are automatically formed, so too are coupling words. We are trying to bundle font rendering also as part of our app," Ram adds.

Most people consume vernacular-language content through television. Quillpad will soon enable the TV audiences uncomfortable with English to participate in game shows by sending responses in regional languages. "We are waiting for the right partners to take the consumer-engagement project forward," says Ram.